Possible situations for differences after reconciling

Quicken uses the amount of the opening balance transaction in your checking register as the Bank Statement Opening Balance in the Reconcile Bank Statement window. When you set up the account, you may have entered a balance that was different from the actual amount in your bank account. There are probably transactions missing from your Quicken account that affect the balance.

For example, say it's July. You started recording transactions in May and subsequently reconciled your account for May/June. Then you went back and recorded transactions starting in January. After entering these transactions, you noticed that the ending balance in the register was incorrect. So you updated the date and amount of the original opening balance transaction that Quicken recorded in your register when you set up your account in May.

If you are getting an incorrect opening balance while reconciling, un-reconcile the statement for the previous months until the ending balance matches with the opening balance of the following month. After getting the balance for the following month, you can start a fresh reconciliation month by month.

You may have inadvertently changed or deleted a transaction that already had an R in the Clr field.

Quicken always asks to confirm a change to a previously reconciled transaction. If you have already ruled out other possible errors, you probably should continue with reconciliation and have Quicken record an adjustment transaction when reconciliation is complete.

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